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Thu, 04/29/2021 LAWRENCE – By creating an online trilingual dictionary with a grant from Humanities Kansas to the local Centro Hispano, applicants hope to help descendants of immigrants from the Mexican state of Guerrero preserve their heritage and maybe even speak to their grandparents back home in the indigenous language Meꞌphaa. That is Philip Duncan’s hope, anyway. The University of Kansas assistant teaching professor of linguistics serves as project director for the newly announced $3,500 grant titled “Preserving the Meꞌphaa Language in Kansas: A Collaborative Online Dictionar...

photos: Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Ice sculptor Jared McAlister concentrates on carving an edge on an ice sculpture Tuesday at DiMartino Ice Co. in Jeannette. photos: Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review DiMartino Ice Co. employees and ice sculptors John Lowry, left, and Jared McAlister, right, work on creating ice sculptures Tuesday in Jeannette. photos: Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Dave DeFloria, an ice sculptor at DiMartino Ice Co., carves the Peanuts character Snoopy on Tuesday in Jeannette. photos: Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review John Lowry, an ice sculptor at DiMartino Ice Co., shaves ed...

residents and employees filed past the casket of william donald schaefer. the former governor and mayor is lying in repose at city hall until 9:00 p.m. tonight. david collins spent the day there and he joins us with more on how mr. schaefer is being remembered tonight. >> one of the most endearing aspects of this public viewing is the diverse cross-section of people coming to say goodbye. >> everyone can win, let me show you how to play. >> this is a classic tv pitch to keep the city clean. >> i am mayor schaefer. ♪ >> a jovial and neighborly line for the public viewing at city hal...

>> whether it was at harvard law school, chicago, hawaii, all the obvious spots. >> when you were -- did you do much to fill in -- i don't want to say blanks, but to fill in spaces in his own book because he's told us his own story. but you learn much more in researching this book. did you find that it was difficult to get people to open up and talk to you about this? >> no, not really. >> one of the things that many of his friends and acquaintances have been very guarded with his story. >> i didn't find -- once you get into the political class, once you get into the area of people r...